Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll A Pop-up Adaptation

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation ever, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style. The text is faithful to Lewis Carroll's original story, and special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, and tactile elements make this a pop-up to read and admire again and again.

Robert Sabuda is known worldwide for his innovative pop-up paper engineering. His books have garnered numerous awards and have made the New York Times bestseller lists. Sabudas classic tales include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and The 12 Days of Christmas. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Mr. Sabuda lives in New York.

The New York Times

He was trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced in the company’s corps de ballet before decamping to New York City Ballet, where he became the resident choreographer and earned a reputation as the field’s most promising new talent.

The Guardian

The strongest scene in the Royal Ballet's new production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, opens with Alice (Lauren Cuthbertson) standing outside a country cottage.

Publishers Weekly

In this enthusiastic adaptation, readers follow a stylized puppetlike Alice on her adventures, which are illustrated with elaborate mixed-media collages featuring a madcap assortment of books, clocks, and photographs, as well as doors and windows that open.

Publishers Weekly

A series of cleverly choreographed closing scenes shows Alice in the Queen's courtroom, pelted by the playing cards that, on the next spread, seem to have transformed into the falling leaves of the tree where Alice awakens and her sister gives her a kiss;

The Telegraph

The Telegraph

Edward Watson and Steven McRae are thrown away as Carroll and the Mad Hatter, and once again the only character big enough to upstage the set is the pratfalling Queen of Hearts, played by Laura Morera in Joan Crawford mode.

SF Site

The late Cyril Ritchard, as the first Alice reader I heard and the favorite of my childhood, will always be the gold standard for me, but I am pleased to report that in this new audiobook edition, the wonderfully talented Jim Dale renders a memorable performance that gloriously delivers Alice to ...

Common Sense Media

Alice's strange new world remains just enough like the polite society of Victorian England that we can recognize it -- but it isn't terribly polite, allowing adults to understand much of the book as satire.

Kidz World

Lewis Carroll also wrote Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There six years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and some of the characters from this book also appear in the Disney movie.

Geek Speak

Those clever, sneaky fellows at Mouse Central had combined elements from the two books to create their little gem that they, regardless, called Alice in Wonderland, even though Alice was clearly through the looking-glass when she, as for example, learned of un-birthdays.